In message
<350DC7048372D31197F200902773DF4C04944169@exchange11.rl.ac.uk> on Mon,
15 Mar 2004, "Miles, AJ (Alistair)" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk> wrote
>In merging, a new scheme is created by combining concepts from
>different sources.
>
>It's worth considering the situations where separate groups of people
>(part of a larger community) are responsible for contributing concepts
>as part of a larger scheme. In this scenario we may expect to find
>overlap of labels.
Before you merge them, you may have to undertake a mapping operation in
order to resolve conflicts and inconsistencies. A label may be
associated with different concepts in the part-thesauri being mapped
together.
Once you have merged the contributions into a whole, each label in the
single resulting thesaurus should be unique. This should therefore be a
requirement of a scheme of encoding any single thesaurus, it seems to
me.
Leonard
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